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Grimentz-Lesalpes

www.grimentz-lesalpes.co.uk

Grimentz-Lesalpes is a business website for a luxury apartment in the town of Grimentz, Switzerland. Featuring:

XHTML, CSS & PHP: Using the latest Open Source technologies means no licensing fees and easy portability of the site.
Validated to web standards: Important and necessary. This one aspect alone gives a huge amount of backward compatibility and future proofing. It also increases cross browser and cross platform support.
Accessibility support WAI and Section 508: It is sensible to ensure your site does not discriminate against disabled users. By meeting the standards and passing automated tests we can show reasonable efforts taken to avoid discrimination.
Cross browser compatible: The site has been tested successfully on IE6.0, IE7 and Firefox 2.0. It is expected to work on Safari, Konqueror, Opera and Mozilla browsers and later versions of the testing browsers. Any standards compliant browser should render it acceptably.
Cross platform compatible: Tested on Windows XP Home/Pro and Linux (Kubuntu). It is expected to work on all windows family PC's above Windows 95. It is also expected to work on Linux (*nix) and Apple MAC's.
Wide coverage: The sites platform and browser support means that it has wide coverage (99%+) of the typical expected users for the site.
Internet Explorer bugs workaround: Internet Explorer contains rendering bugs that can disrupt how web pages are displayed. By staying abreast of the latest technical coding developments, we work around these rendering bugs in ways that will not break the site when Internet Explorer 7.0+ is used and some of the earlier bugs are fixed.
Core design template: The core design has been put into a template for fast site wide updates and easy creation of new pages.
Efficient, fast code: The core code base (as in the code that basic to every page) is only: 6.36kb. The supporting core CSS and Javascript files are 14.4kb. This gives a total code hit (before supporting images) of only 20.76kb first visit and around 6kb subsequent page loads. Such low overheads give a faster performance allowing more graphics.
Dynamic galleries: The galleries show website branding and employ some anti-theft protection for the original image. Pictures are dynamically rendered to the correct display properties from varying source sizes. One single source picture used for providing thumbnails, full size image and any other images of varying sizes.
Easy update: Gallery: The sites gallery pages are automatically generated from the contents of a specific folder. This makes updating as easy as drag and drop.; Rates and booking statuses: Are imported via a CSV sheet (maintained in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc or even Notepad) allowing for quick and easy addition or removal of the featured customer testimonials.
Custom error pages: Custom Error pages add a great deal and present a professional feel to the site. Several custom error pages allow Grimentz-Lesalpes to retain their branding even when the user follows an old link or makes a spelling mistake in the url.
Active monitoring: Rather than wait for the webmaster to review the logs, the site gets proactive. It automatically notifies the webmaster about errors and any suspected malicious activity. This allows for a much more rapid response to problems, viruses and attacks.
Email web form templates: An adjustable text template file is used to produce a more readable web form submission. This allows easy expansion and changes to automatic emails sent via the site. The web forms are also attractively styled with CSS.
Search engine friendly: The web site technologies and style of coding mean that it is search engine friendly. The robots and spiders that search engines use can view the textual content of the page easily. Filenames, titles and meta tags have also been used with a mind to promoting the importance of the company name “Griments Lesalpes”. Headings have been used to promote the content and sections within the site.
Low maintenance: The web site is intellegent with dated text allowing for much lower maintenance costs. For example the copyright notice will automatically increment the current year and display a range when necessary.
Easy configuration: The web site uses configuration files for many of its settings and messages. In this way, simple configuration files can be changed to quickly update the entire sites messages and behaviour.

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